120 Dr. G. B. Longstaff's Notes on the Butterflies 



" dry "]. Single specimens of the following were sent 

 home : Nychitona xiphia ; Papilio pammon, male ; Limnas 

 ehrysippus, female ; Castalius rosimon and Lampidcs celeno, 

 Cr., of the form conferanda. Telchinia violie was common, 

 one being; of a fine red colour. 



Mddnra, lat, 9° 55' N., alt. 600 ft. 

 March 7th, 1904. 



This was about the least productive place that I visited. 

 Limnas ehrysippus was scarcely common. A male Huphina 

 nerissa gave out the sweet-briar scent quite strongly. 1 

 saw several Telchinia violie upon a railway bank. Precis 

 cenone was fairly common, but P. almana was commoner 

 here, about the irrigation ditches bordering meadows, than 

 at any place I visited ; they were of the " intermediate 

 dry " form. P. lemonias was also abundant, some of them 

 being very brightly coloured. 



In a grove of young palms near the river a singular 

 dragon-fly, Libellula variegaia, Linn., was common ; the 

 tips of its wings are transparent and colourless, but the 

 basal three-fifths of the primaries, and the basal five- 

 sixths of the secondaries, are light-brown with a bold 

 dark-brown pattern. I believe that I saw the same crea- 

 ture in the Kudsia Gardens at Delhi, flying near the tops 

 of trees, and then, as in the present case, took it for a 

 ffeliconms-like butterfly, which it greatly resembles on the 

 wing. As I did not know that any butterfly of that shape 

 was found in India I was greatly excited at seeing it, and 

 proportionately disappointed when I at last effected its 

 capture. 



This was the last place at which I collected in India. 



Ceylon, lat. 7° N. 



All the places that I visited in this beautiful island were 

 within twenty miles north or south of the seventh parallel 

 of latitude. The luxuriance of the vegetation was an 

 immense relief after the parched plains of India. At the 

 lower elevations it was more distinctly tropical than any 

 that I had yet seen, but this character was lost at greater 

 altitudes. 



